Disgrace
Edition: Reading Guide Edition (4)
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780099540984
Copyright date: 1999
Subjects: Fathers and daughters, fiction; South africa, fiction; Fiction, general; Veterinarians, fiction
Description: INCLUDES A READING GUIDE

After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding.

For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship.
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Notes: UK